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- CD-ROM Drive
- A device that holds and reads CD-ROM discs. CD-ROM drives generally also play audio CD discs by sending analog sound to the sound card via a 4-pin cable. ...
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- Eject Widget 1.0.2b (Windows)
- Eject Widget is a free and simple Eject Button for your CD rom drives on a Windows PC. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.
- Tags: CD-ROM Drive, Windows PC, Jon Ericson, Microsoft Windows, Consumer Electronics, Operating Systems, Software, Personal Technology
- Software downloads 2007-11-08
- Ordinary CD players to monitor our health?
- Many of us, at least in developed countries, have CD players rusting in our homes. So why not turning them into something useful? A very short note by the American Chemical Society ACS says that Spanish researchers have adapted this now venerable technology into home health monitoring systems. This means...
- Tags: Monitor, CD, Disc, Health Care, CD-ROM Drive, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2007-09-26
- Doorkeeper 1.4 (Windows)
- Doorkeeper is a program for making opening and closing CD-ROM drives easy. It requires only one mouse click to open the CD drive. Most important features are these: skinable interface, translations, can handle up to 2 devices at a time, auto close CD-ROM, multi user environment, Hot Keys support, CD...
- Tags: CD, CD-ROM, Microsoft Windows, CD-ROM Drive, Hane Creations, Doorkeeper
- Software downloads 2007-03-26
- CD ROM Drive Remote Disabler 2 (Windows)
- Allows you to easily enable or disable CD ROM drives on your Windows 2000, 2003, or XP systems - across your LAN.
- Tags: CD-ROM, CD-ROM Drive, IntelliNavigator, Microsoft Windows, Consumer Electronics, Operating Systems, Software, Personal Technology
- Software downloads 2006-08-31
- CD ROM Drive Disabler 2 (Windows)
- Allows you to easily enable or disable CD ROM drives on your Windows 2000, 2003, or XP system.
- Tags: CD-ROM, CD-ROM Drive, IntelliNavigator, Microsoft Windows, Consumer Electronics, Operating Systems, Software, Personal Technology
- Software downloads 2006-08-31
- CD Tray Pal 1.0.56 (Windows)
- Emsa CD Tray Pal is a handy utility that acts as a CD-ROM Drive control menu. It runs in the system tray and makes opening/closing CD door easier than ever, even on multiple CD-ROM drives! Features: Autorun at system startup Runs as system tray icon Capable of handling multipe CD-ROM...
- Tags: CD, CD-ROM, Microsoft Windows, CD-ROM Drive, System Tray, EMSA Systems, Emsa CD Tray Pal, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
- Software downloads 2005-12-18
- TrayCD 1.06 (Windows)
- This useful application will open or close your CD-ROM drives from the Windows system tray. Compatible with all Windows CD-ROM drives. For those of you who have your CD-ROM in a inconvenient place, just download this program and with one mouse click it will open your CD-ROM. We also include...
- Tags: CD-ROM, CD-ROM Drive, Microsoft Windows, Consumer Electronics, Operating Systems, Software, Personal Technology
- Software downloads 2005-08-30
- Drive Info 2.3.1 (Windows)
- Learn the hidden secrets of your disk and CD-ROM drives. Are your files compressed? How big is each drive? Does the drive support Long File Names LFN? Karen's Drive Info reveals all this and more.
- Tags: CD-ROM Drive, KarenWare.com, Karen, Microsoft Windows, Consumer Electronics, Operating Systems, Software, Personal Technology
- Software downloads 2005-03-28
- Circle Virtual CD 1.02 (Windows)
- Circle Virtual CD creates a virtual CD-ROM drive on your Windows PC. This allows you to make images of your favorite CD-ROMs and use them without inserting a CD into a CD-ROM drive. Circle Virtual CD improves the speed at which you access data and stops you from having to...
- Tags: CD, CD-ROM, Microsoft Windows, CD-ROM Drive, Circle Virtual CD, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
- Software downloads 2004-01-13
- Virtual Original CD Drive Emulator 2.2 (Windows)
- Virtual Original CD Emulator will help you rip your own CDs to a hard disk or to network images, and create a virtual CD-ROM on your computer to access those images. It works like a real CD-ROM: you can run programs, play games, or listen to music from your virtual...
- Tags: CD, CD-ROM, ISO, Microsoft Windows, CD-ROM Drive, Image, Ztekware, Iso standards, Process Improvement, Consumer Electronics, Quality, Business Operations, Personal Technology
- Software downloads 2003-10-07
- CDEject 2.50 (Windows)
- This program allows you to disable manual control of your CD-ROM, and control it by mouse or hotkey, so if you have small children, you can protect the CD drive tray and your children's fingers. It also save wear from pushing the CD drive tray closed. You open the CD...
- Tags: CD, Microsoft Windows, CD-ROM Drive, Tray, Webthread Development
- Software downloads 2003-03-23
- CD Speed 3.4 (Windows)
- CD Speed is a tool to improve CD reading reliability, lower read noise, and extend your CD-ROM drive lifetime. CD Speed can set the maximum data transfer rate of your CD-ROM drive and limit compact disk rotation speed. These settings will apply to all Windows applications that read data from...
- Tags: Disk, CD, CD-ROM, Microsoft Windows, CD-ROM Drive, Tonec, CD Speed
- Software downloads 2002-11-11
- 2002 CD Eject 2.2 (Windows)
- 2002 CD Eject is a utility that manages your CD ROM drive doors. It allows you to open and close the CD ROM door by using a hotkey or via an icon in your system tray. It will automatically close the door within a couple of seconds if you have...
- Tags: CD, CD-ROM, Microsoft Windows, CD-ROM Drive, System Tray, FOMINE SOFTWARE, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
- Software downloads 2002-07-27
- CD Drive Tool 1.0 (Windows)
- From the developer: ""CD Drive Tool gives you on screen or system tray control with your CD Rom Drives (From 1 to 5 drives). You can Open and Close your CD Rom Drives and Run the CD's in your CD Rom drives. The program can enable or disable the general...
- Tags: CD, Microsoft Windows, CD-ROM Drive, Ingmar Jorgensen Software, CD Drive Tool
- Software downloads 2002-06-13
- 100xCD 2.7 (Windows)
- 100xCD Cache speeds up your CD-ROM drive by caching frequently accessed data to your local hard drive. It work under Windows-XP/2000. Modern hard drives and RAID-devices are much faster than any CD-ROM drive available on the market in both access time and transfer rate, so the overall performance increases when...
- Tags: Hard Drive, CD-ROM, Microsoft Windows, CD-ROM Drive, KMI Software, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
- Software downloads 2002-03-15
- CDSpace Network 2.0 (Windows)
- CDSpace Network is a product that is supplemented with an excellent Networking function on the virtual CD-ROM drive. While CDSpace is personal, CDSpace Network version is a software that allows multi-users to simultaneously share and play programs easily by setting image files of virtual CD-ROM drives in one or more...
- Tags: Function, Network, CD-ROM, Microsoft Windows, CD-ROM Drive, CDSpace Network, Consumer Electronics, Networking, Personal Technology
- Software downloads 2002-01-20
- CD Madness 2.5.2 (Windows)
- This program lets you control your CD drives and CDs. Plays Audio CDs via built-in player. Supports multiple drives. Launches AutoPlay any time you need it. Opens/closes CD drive. Closes CD drive automatically. Allows the password protection. Auto-ejects disks before shutting down the system. Configurable hot keys for CD Player...
- Tags: CD, Microsoft Windows, CD-ROM Drive, Brownie Entertainment
- Software downloads 2001-04-22
- CDAcrobat 1.0 (Windows)
- This is a system-tray based program that lets you control your CD drives and compact discs. It allows you to use keyboard or mouse for opening/closing any of CD drives, installed on your computer. Other useful features are supported too.
- Tags: CD, Microsoft Windows, CD-ROM Drive, NoDa
- Software downloads 2001-01-07
- CharisMac CD AutoCache 1.51 (Mac)
- CD AutoCache offers you a simple and quick solution to push your CD-ROM drive to its maximum potential, increasing the performance of even the fastest drives on the market. CD AutoCache supports virtually all CD-ROM drives and formats including Kodak's Photo CD. CD AutoCache monitors how your computer requests and...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, CD, CD-ROM, CD-ROM Drive, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
- Software downloads 2000-09-07
- Open/Close CD 1.20 (Windows)
- This program will open or close the CD-ROM drive then launch a specified program. For example, you can setup this program so that every time you launch Notepad.exe your CD-ROM drive would open as well. For a better example, just think of a program you use all of the time...
- Tags: Program, CD-ROM, Microsoft Windows, CD-ROM Drive, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
- Software downloads 2000-08-28
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